netdev-genl: create a simple family for netdev stuff
authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Wed, 1 Feb 2023 10:24:17 +0000 (11:24 +0100)
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Fri, 3 Feb 2023 04:48:23 +0000 (20:48 -0800)
commitd3d854fd6a1d97157f790604e07f6386e8df8fe4
tree1fa69cf00dfb4df8d4acabcff0809ee36a61a2af
parent150809082aab95f7078f343c1c82770d6c9ebe68
netdev-genl: create a simple family for netdev stuff

Add a Netlink spec-compatible family for netdevs.
This is a very simple implementation without much
thought going into it.

It allows us to reap all the benefits of Netlink specs,
one can use the generic client to issue the commands:

  $ ./cli.py --spec netdev.yaml --dump dev_get
  [{'ifindex': 1, 'xdp-features': set()},
   {'ifindex': 2, 'xdp-features': {'basic', 'ndo-xmit', 'redirect'}},
   {'ifindex': 3, 'xdp-features': {'rx-sg'}}]

the generic python library does not have flags-by-name
support, yet, but we also don't have to carry strings
in the messages, as user space can get the names from
the spec.

Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Marek Majtyka <alardam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Majtyka <alardam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/327ad9c9868becbe1e601b580c962549c8cd81f2.1675245258.git.lorenzo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml [new file with mode: 0644]
include/linux/netdevice.h
include/net/xdp.h
include/uapi/linux/netdev.h [new file with mode: 0644]
net/core/Makefile
net/core/dev.c
net/core/netdev-genl-gen.c [new file with mode: 0644]
net/core/netdev-genl-gen.h [new file with mode: 0644]
net/core/netdev-genl.c [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h [new file with mode: 0644]